p. 276 | Crime by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 15, 1882

Crime.

By Editor

The papers for three days prior to the time of this writing, contain the account of eighteen murders committed in the United States, besides numerous lesser crimes, and some too horrible to mention. Probably not one of the murderers will receive his just deserts. The trial of the man who stabbed his brother in a drunken brawl in San Francisco, recently, has just resulted in a disagreement of the jury. These wise men evidently thought that the man was not guilty, because, being a drunkard, he had peculiar rights. Besides, his brother was drunk and tried to stab him too. It has got so nowadays that juries seem disposed to blame the victims for getting in the way, rather than convict the murderer. They might learn something useful by reading 1 Tim. 1 : 9, 10.